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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2018 file photo, Democratic New Mexico state Sen. John Pinto talks about his career as a lawmaker on American Indian Day in the Legislature on in Santa Fe, N.M. Some Navajo Nation officials are seeking to ask New Mexico to rename a U.S. highway after Pinto who died in May 2019 after four decades as a lawmaker. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

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Mourners gathered to remember deceased state Sen. John Pinto at the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M., on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Pinto died on Friday at age 94 after serving 42 years in the state Senate. He trained as a Navajo code talker to encrypt radio messages in World War II and helped authorize spending this year for a museum about the code talkers. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

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Mourners gathered to remember deceased state Sen. John Pinto at the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M., on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Pinto died on Friday at age 94 after serving 42 years in the state Senate. He trained as a Navajo code talker to encrypt radio messages in World War II and helped authorize spending this year for a museum about the code talkers. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2018, fle photo Democratic New Mexico state Sen. John Pinto talks about his career as a lawmaker on American Indian Day in the Legislature on in Santa Fe, N.M. Pinto joined the Senate in 1977 and is 92 years old. He was a Marine who trained as a Navajo code talker during World War II. His singing of the &quot;Potato Song&quot; is an annual Senate ritual. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

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FILE - New Mexico Sen. John Pinto addresses the Senate chambers on the first day of the state Legislature at the New Mexico Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. Pinto, one of the nation's longest serving Native American elected officials, has died at age 94. (AP Photo/Juan Labreche, File)

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